Tag: Fact

Fact vs. Fiction: America’s Carjacking Spree

In February, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a controversial explanation for the explosion in carjackings that has plagued her city since mid-2020: Remote learning, Lightfoot alleged, had made juvenile carjackers out of bored youth. “A lot of parents went to work during the d...

6 interesting facts about the Yakuza you probably didn’t know

Unlike other mafias such as the Bratva, Camorra, or Los Zetas, Yakuza members — of which there are about 50,000 — are not fugitives from justice. Although laws have been passed to limit their reach, Yakuza members still have clearly labeled offices, business cards, and even fan magazines...

Jesus, Mithras and Ancient Roman Cults: Separating Fact from Fiction

Welcome to the next instalment of my series looking at the ancient mythological gods and how they compare to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Mithras is yet another popular ancient god that people like to compare with Jesus and make wild claims about, proposing that they are the same deiti...

Expressing Uncertainty Without Confusing the Fact Finders

As observed in our last installment of this series, “Can Certainty in Digital Forensics Be Automated?”, it’ll probably be awhile yet before digital forensics tools can demonstrate the certainty of their results through, say, a likelihood ratio. So how are digital forensic practi...